Notes

Symmetry Dead is the new live album by America’s favorite Blackgrass band, Shiny Red Nothing. In order to sing along with your favorite songs, the CDC recommends that you get your digital copy for free here: https://archive.org/details/symmetry_dead

CAUTION: When the following lyrics are read aloud on a Thursday morning at 2:32 A.M. during a full moon (in conjunction, of course, with the shedding of the blood of an albino black bear during the appropriate ritual fire dance within a circle drawn with red and yellow crayons on spread out newspapers from Wednesday morning), one may summon the beast, Lord Kifflex Skulldugger of Babylon, demon saint of Monday mornings and break room microwaves which haven’t been cleaned for more than a year.



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1). The Influx Of Brains


2.) Baited Breath
By Jeremiah Strickland
Copyright © Punk Rock Superhero Music

Please call and say come over when you're done with your homework and you wanna come play
I'll try and play it cool while my heart is racing like it wants to get out

I can't wait, no, I can't hardly wait
Ooh ooh
I can't wait, no, I can't hardly wait
Ah

It's like a Friday evening with the weakest promise of chocolate ice cream
When we can get together, it's like candy confection, it’s my favorite thing

So long
So sad
When you're gone
Oh, come back
We'll sing like this: Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba

I can't wait, no, I can't hardly wait
Ooh ooh
I can't wait, no, I can't hardly wait
Ah


3.) Let Me Be Your Liquor Man
By Jeremiah Strickland with Aaron Strickland, Damon Green, & Kenny Sprinkle
Originally performed by The Minni-Thins
Copyright © Punk Rock Superhero Music

I go to the liquor store
Run out and go back for more
And in the evening when I leave the bar
I stop at the drive through Liquor store
Yeah

I got good genes in me


4.) A Wonderful Idea

5.) Lovely Mathematician
By Jeremiah Strickland
With thanks to Tim Harrell
Copyright © Punk Rock Superhero Music

she spoke that sweet language
killed me symmetry dead
she spoke that sweet language
killed me symmetry dead
she spoke that sweet language
killed me symmetry dead
now the vibrations from her tongue still bounce through my head

she shook her tambourine
invoked a sweet spirit
she shook her tambourine
invoked a sweet spirit
she shook her tambourine
invoked a sweet spirit
now my body’s left me writhing freely, making me sweat

I said some cosmic theme’s come conquered me and lulled me to being
some cosmic theme’s come conquered me and lulled me to being
some cosmic theme’s come conquered me and lulled me to being
now my heart’s a beating constant of her equation

she worked out hoodoo ragtime
with femme caramel skin
she worked out hoodoo ragtime
with femme caramel skin
she worked out hoodoo ragtime
with femme caramel skin
now my two-beat pulse is racing out of syncopation

I said some cosmic theme’s come conquered me and lulled me to being
some cosmic theme’s come conquered me and lulled me to being
some cosmic theme’s come conquered me and lulled me to being
now my heart’s a beating factor of her equation

she rode ellipse around me
friended me like a fire
she rode ellipse around me
friended me like a fire
she rode ellipse around me
friended me like a fire
now my satellite’s in orbit with copernican spin

I said some cosmic theme’s come conquered me and lulled me to being
some cosmic theme’s come conquered me and lulled me to being
some cosmic theme’s come conquered me and lulled me to being
now my heart’s a beating factor of her equation

I said a lovely mathematician’s got me factored in



Symmetry Dead - Alternate Album Cover Art




6.) Casper
By Jeremiah Strickland, Stephanie Cole, TJ Meyering, & Jesse St John Wallace
Copyright © Punk Rock Superhero Music

Down
Looped sidewalk
Sink
Up
Mad flailing
Cosmic leak

How you feel now?
(Girl, what’s happening?)

Out-
-Side closed windows
Hummingbirds drink
Fer-
-Mented berries
To test class glass

How you feel now?
(Girl, what’s happening?)

Dues ex machina
Trillions of hosts
Strutting
Down the road
I was not a friendly ghost
I was not a friendly ghost


7.) Julia, On Her Prayer Stand
By Jeremiah Strickland with Kelly Jarvis & Stephanie Cole
Originally performed by The Minni-Thins
Copyright © Punk Rock Superhero Music

Julia, on her prayer stand
and she’s feeling disdain
and the troll where the doll was
is what the doll became
to understand
a man
has got to find a place
for plants
and he waters them
and then
he grows his own legs

she keeps asking where the door goes
well, dear, it opens a wall
go and open it right now
reveal the great hall
let loose the hose that knows
where all the words, they go
the point of this speech

the sequence of events is not coincidence


8.) Hope & Water
By Jason Wells
Originally performed by For Algernon
Copyright © Grandpa’s Chili Music

I need some, I’m in a lot of pain pills
Temporarily relieve all of my ills
I need a tempo I can dance to
So I can get drunk, and scream out that I love you

Now
Before I go
I just wanna let you know
Before I go

I think we should be perfectly honest
Each of us has a little dirt on us
All we need’s a little hope and water
To clean up myself after my self slaughter

Now
Before I go
I just wanna let you know
Before I go

All these drugs
Never make you disappear
They just make me smile
Through my time here

I need some, I’m in a lot of pain pills
Temporarily relieve all of my ills
I need a tempo I can dance to
So I can get drunk, and scream out that I love you

Now
Before I go
I just wanna let you know
Before I go


9.) Your Personal Number




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10.) Today, Satan!
By Jeremiah Strickland
Copyright © Punk Rock Superhero Music

Some folks say
Well, not today,
“Lord Satan, weep
Cause I got away
By luck's design
I've won this time
Fuck you, Satan
Not today”

But I won't
Live life that way
Just biding my time
'till Satan tempts yours and mine
No, I'll make a stand
Make a fist with my hand
Fuck you, Satan
Today!

Today, Satan
Today, Satan
Today, Satan
Satan, Today

When you unfurl your wings
I'm sorry to say that you're just not as scary as you think,

Satan
Today, Satan
Today, Satan
Satan, Today


11.) The Devil Can’t Dance
By Jeremiah Strickland
Originally performed by The Minni-Thins
Copyright © Punk Rock Superhero Music

sweet is the day, when you pass it away
with your hips and your thighs and your feet and your legs
she surely can’t dance, but she surely can sway
what it’s really about is the lips on her face

it’s a sin, girl
it’s a sin, girl
when you sway, oh
it’s a sin

I do not know where she learned it all from
her daddy’s side or maybe her mom
sweet Jesus knows what I’m talking about
it’s the devil’s work when she comes around

it’s a sin, girl
it’s a sin, girl
when you sway, oh
it’s a sin

I heard the truth in an old country song
the preacher’s not right if his wife is all wrong
the devil can’t dance, but she surely can shake
the devil can’t dance, but she surely can sway


12.) Honey
By Jeremiah Strickland
with thanks to Dale Johnson
Copyright © Punk Rock Superhero Music

I’ve got no money, honey, but I’ve got some news
I’ve got a handmade shelter, the fire shows my moods
So, let’s get cozy
Your secret, show me
We’ll set it loose

Leena, feel the beat
Know where your center’s at
The fire takes your feet
Tiny crop circles form
Shadows, dust, and light
Play with my senses torn
Leena, feel the beat
Know where my center’s at
I can surely lead you on to the commotion
Leena, feel the beat

I’ve got no money, honey, but I’ve got no blues
We need no man-made currency to stock our rooms
So, let’s get cozy
Your secret, show me
We’ll set it loose


13.) A Wonderful Idea


14.) A Walk In The Park
By Jeremiah Strickland
Copyright © Punk Rock Superhero Music

Lucy plants herself amongst the soil and roots ‘till she knows the flora/fauna by name
The stickbugs in the leaves know what’s carried via breeze and shiver as they hear her name
It’s Lucy

Ah, Lucy, go go go
Come on, come on, come on
Ah, Lucy, no no no
Come on, come on, come on
Ah, Lucy, go go go
Lucy, you’re the only girl I know who says hello to everyone with her teeth

When you made me fall and scrape my knee
I just wiped the blood, that’s how love can be

Ah, Lucy, go go go
Come on, come on, come on
Ah, Lucy, no no no
Come on, come on, come on
Ah, Lucy, go go go
Lucy, you’re the only girl I know who says hello to everyone with her teeth



Symmetry Dead - Alternate Album Cover Art




15.) Becky, Go Home
By Jeremy Strickland & Aaron Strickland
Originally performed by The Minni-Thins
Copyright © Punk Rock Superhero Music

Becky, don't you know that's not the way that it’s done?
Russell’s chasing after Moses with his old shotgun
and Becky
Can’t you choose the one you love?
Terry’s not an honest man, he's stealing from the trucks at work

and Becky, please
Go home
You've been sleeping on the couch for days
Drinking all the beer and saying
You ain’t got no reason
You ain’t got no reason
You ain’t got no reason to go home

Sister liz is out there telling tales
She's at grandma’s, and she's got her on the telephone, calling Russell saying,
“Russell go and get your gun.
You won’t believe what our sweet little becky has gone and done!”

and Becky, please
Go home
You've been sleeping on the couch for days
Drinking all the beer and sayin’
Rusty’s kicked Dilaudids
He's calling on the phone and he's crying in my ear, saying,
“Man, I need my Becky
Man, I need my Becky
Man, I need my sweet becky at hooooome!”


16.) Eyes Forward
By Jeremiah Strickland
Copyright © Punk Rock Superhero Music

I woke up on Sunday morning
Tempted by the thought of sleeping in
But then you hooked your arm around me
To whisper,”Please,
Make eggs for me”
And so I did

With eyes forward

Snuck up on me in the kitchen
Moved by scarlet thoughts of lips to lips
And when you wrapped your arms around me,
I said, “Please,
set the table for me,
And call the kids”

With eyes forward

And when you wonder why
Makes me wonder how
All the memories we buried under the ground
Found their way back to town
After the sun has left
No light behind to reflect on
All the memories we left back eating our ground
In that tidied town

I won't find work as a pilot
Nor build a house or dig a grave
Loving you's fine work
And we're so good at doing our jobs almost every day

With eyes forward


17.) Have No Fear


18.) Chaos In The Yard
By Jeremiah Strickland with Michael Kuntz
Copyright © Punk Rock Superhero Music

The copper pipes went missing with the chaos in the yard
The cops they are a’ chasing someone; from the back, I saw
Flashing lights and footsteps that I hear as fingers point
Baggies found on wet grass prompt, “Put your hands up on the car”

Here’s to the crack cocaine the cops found in your yard
Here’s to the crack cocaine the cops found in your yard
Here’s to the crack cocaine the cops found in your yard
Put your hands up on the car

Snowflakes are a’ falling on the SUV outside
I see they are all melting in familiar pop time
I locked my doors and windows, and I thought that I was safe
Blocked that spice of life, variety, the human race

Here’s the dream catcher your neighbor left behind
Here’s to the LSD that showed that painting’s smile
Here’s to the chaos in my mind and in the yard
Here’s to the ones downstairs, more susceptible than I

Here’s to the crack cocaine the cops found in your yard
Here’s to the crack cocaine the cops found in your yard
Here’s to the crack cocaine the cops found in your yard
Put your hands up on the car


19.) Chorus Of The Zombie Apocalypso
By Jeremiah Strickland
Originally performed by The Minni-Thins
Copyright © Punk Rock Superhero Music

the zombie
apocalypso is the song
of this prudish
melody we’re calling “God”
and all his daughters
are conjuring up six pagan dogs with their priestesses with fiery red flesh headdresses on her

and all the muddy
rivers of this vital Earth
are over teeming
with six corpses giving birth
to awful armies
rape the world and giving head to the master; all the dead look simply understated in his arms

and I was certain to be the wander
certain certain certain certain
certain to be the wander
certain certain certain certain
certain to be the one
certainly the wandering eye of 666
keep me abreast, keep me abreast, keep me abreast

of the zombie
apocalypso is the song
of the prudish
melody we’re singing, God